02.17.1942 thru 01.26.1945.pdf - The Lowell

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Seniors Get Ready
For Faculty Tilt
THE LOWELL. HltlDAY. JANUARV 20. 19«'
PREP STARS
IN SERVICE
DANNY'S
An the. old jirofs lay aside their, may occasionally crow tile plate
textbooks bk uml d students tudnts «lo do llkowl*e. llkwlw wilt be Elmer Harris.
the nchool nt larse anxiously pre- So much for the faculty. Ami
pares for today'* semi-annual foe- now a brief *ize*up uf the senior
ulty baseball tflt.
sqund will show why the graduate*
The seniors, with t flaiihmjr Ilirht cannot bu underrated. Operating
of reveiiKe gleaming In their blood- fm.n tho mound will bo irrfd star
shot eyes, arc even up a* fnr as thei Sp Snence Vyn Voyne. and i hacking hki hi him up
- * • '" *• ' "- in betting goe*. but should lie rated! will ho he callable caitable Hud "-•' McGIIIy. "
as slight underdog* to a more sea- Handling all of the first base put*
soned and experienced ball dull.' out* will IK> Hank "I piny a little
- #_....... ».-..i— «i_..«-i .„n Simnmn.* nipping a few facuK
Iwtd upstart* a slight shellacking, ty run* In the bud. I ton mini- the
Junt look at the human dynamov* cutfldd pasture* will IK; Mel WIIIgrnclng
tho faculty line-up anil bnck, ICoycr Jnhmum. ami \\Vnny
that's ht' nut no hard h d t to understand.' l t d ; M Meyers. All w« w run say in i "what "ht
Holding down the first liase spot' M GrlsHold Bchrend, class of Ml*
Is in the Aircraft Signal Corps,)
stntliinetl in the South I'ncific I
t Bert Burns, class of '-13, I* «Utloned
at the U. S. S. Admiral
Hbvrle Station. South Pacific.
ftsrgeant Lwi Vugel Jr.. fs servme
fa thcN'avy and is now overscan.
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CnnlaEn Rdward II. Lettunich!
was killed In action in Holland oni
N'ovemlwr ...
I'fc. Jack Gutitill wa* „....„ ...
action in tho jlttditcrmneiin Area.; L^T'"** "-.---*-• .--~» »«•*- *J*. an.-Hxt-^ .*..«.vww« «*'•! •>• •* »,*••,•¥•* 4tiv»
Harrv Christiansen i* taking the!
ball club!"
fur tla' faculty will be Charlie! From the lookx of thing*, to.
ot(i Cards Nip
Bucs Topple
. The 1945 edition of Lowell's casaba'tcam hasn't quite lived iin to
killed In [*» expectation*, unUl today that is, for It has a fifty per cent average,
>nn Area, having knocked over the St. Ignatius Wildcat* 22-21 In a'thrlllcr. Then
Man Overoptimlsm beat them, as a flighting Balboa squat! pulled a
V-T Navy Academic Refresher! oinjor upset to edge out the Cards by one point. 19-18. / " '
Unit at Colgate University at- To put it mildly the hoyji looked very sad.against the Bucanoers.
HnmilUn. , Kverytlimjr they tried cither went wronir or wouldn't work. After tho
.nil Lieutenant I'aul Hnnnclwr*! Hue/ jrnt off to an early 7-2 lend at the quarter. they ' played - - conservarv
» WUA *>•*•.> killed blli.ul in !« artlnn Miki" Voviu*. whil' 1 ' t«tudiled with laugh* and muytic :i
i-atchint: any of MikeV throws that 1 . i''ir IK'KI.
ICoVrt ,)j«rnr«. tins.* of '\'A, in a • • • * *
ti... Xnvy. Miitinned at: of c,lUrw.. y,)U recot'nlze the smiling faces you nee in thi* column,
i.iano. . . . roiii-h lu-nny Neff hjM l»;t'n mentoring cage teams at Umell for many
Seniors
Hoys' Yard
Seniors
Hillchrand
Wilsun
Simmons
Hollers
Willhsick
Johnson
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"SIUKKCI" I.orbeer '
"Hicps" Dunn (
"Terror" Neff
"KeKK.v" KrieRcr
"Curley" I'eilint; ,
Ticcr" AlKcr •
•Ktehlln- .Mike 1 Voyne '
. . "Kil!cr" Harris [
Cards Start Prep.
Race-Won 1--Lost lj
Starting the *eai>on off with a t" twelve. The imtiaiiH only com*!
lane. Lowell's champumxhlp- mitted nix. High i«»Int man was'
bound fEw found itself with nn Im- "I>>fty" Motirc with seven poiut.u/
portant victor)' of -4*22 over the followed by Dick Mulready, who'
SU Ignatius Wildcat*. totaled six. I
With nn early 7-0 lead it looked Tho thirties game wa;* also one]
good for the Indians tilt S. I. hit of nhcvr excitement with S. I. cop-!
an eight point string. With Itoth! ninir a very cli.se 22-21 vlitoryj
adding a free throw and Lowell'over tlic PIIIHHISCS in an overtime'
hitting a field goal, the tinmx re-; battle which saw Johnny Fracchln;
tirwl ai-'the half-time with the: emerge high point man nnd chief!
score 10-9.' ; "tar for I-owcll, with a tully of;
'It was nip ami tuck throughout 1 "I"* noinU.
. the third quarter, with St. Igna-: Ivan Slavtchs la^ket with fif-
• tiw leading 10*18. Banket* by Joe j teen xt-combi to go. sent the iramc
Flaiinvcn and Ilalph Lynch offset-Into the extra three minutes. Froe-i
JOHNNY KKACCIIIA
each other: then n free throw byi chin hit a field goal, but the Igna- Iniun* leading 10-M and each hit
Kennedy and a lone one by Flnhn- tians also hit one and. with a free* | nil-important field goab'. with Oilven
tied un the score and *et the; throw, put the game on Ice. i lt»n's charity toM hccomiiij; the destage
for the sensational ending, l Though the game was a failure elding factor of the contest. Grid-
Kennedy , fouled Mulready. who: fnr th(. thirties, it was a verv big'fkm Doug Scovil nnd Jim Beaver
missed the free throw, hut this-Btcp for thu varsity toward tho \ were starteil for I^>well but yanked
gave Lowell control uf thn ball.] rhampionjiniti ladder. {from the limi-un eight minutes
With one and one-hulf minutes to ,_ , _f tt. t,n.tttnKl tnwi.u in i '»l«r a# Coach Ben Neff haw the
go. Jtm Duvaras hit his all-decld-!, '" n " e "VIJT-H." Sii'TSiJh'! need for the experienced talent of
ing basket which wrote the differ-j Xiouijj undefeated bilskJlball J( * Ftoliaven nnd Jim iJuvanw.
ence on the Scoreboard. team towed sloppily to Balboa's Cut this ju*t wasn't Lowell's
the twmi clickinir an they did n>.afnst the parochial school, then they're
cointr t" have nn awful tounh time of It.
One point Neff limucht out in our talk was the fact that no team
ban ever won the A. A. A. title with two lo.-sei*. Thnt tradition may jro
overboard thin year, for the b-acue'n tichter tban a Scotchman down to
bin last dine. Mn-t of the team* are fnirlv even. To illustrate, St. !«•
nntiu.-.. one of the better tenmn, hatt nt\ the etlec.
evenly mnteheil. As they left the ,_,
floor at half. St. Ignatius held a ... T1 ' l">'ol I»»t is manned by Vic
tlim fl-7 lent). Huchcr. tallest man on the team.
Tk. .~.,,nd half was c'—'- •—- VlcV ''•'""•"line ability helps the
hut one
Lowell's' varsity cagers turned M Buck«tlcs«" Bucanccrs, 19-1S, in day. and the Dues kept hitting
what could have been defeat into;? gnme which bnd the crowd on tho'shoU from all angle* aim lengths
victory by hitting them on thn • «li;es of their scats the full thlr- while tho Have* and Ashbury boys
free-throw line, swi*binir e two minutes.
,. .., Sherman Heany. who
• _.,.. The Indians . one veteran , , balltlimc(| „ • —•" rotwtantly intercepting poorly
?• ninvcr.juo The Indians' Tliuraton. ono veteran wns held hall-i to 0 ;curacv n{mcd Indinn pn**cit and whose oc-
V field i -goals . _*. by Tommy .— Gucrin. t..,.t.. but.' - cUracv of the ««, nsuwnslble for «*«n
«•;''he gamored five via the five throw of the winners* nineteen wrintK, the
Jv/llne. The Indians', best floor man Bucs nrnvnl to some .1,000 snectn-
£:, war "Lefty" Moore whose aceres-
- T •jt " sivencm slvencm and good nail hall'handling imnuiing
£ were inslrumental in securing thei
intHanK 1 wetu doini their lvest to hit even
the clow-in «ho»j« ^et up by many
of XcffV iniiumerahle plays.
Dillon, laMt year'* lluhtwcipht
htirh scorer, wax hailed as ths connuerintj
hero o* ho drove In under
Dues nrnvcil to some .1,000 specta the banket and under the blanket
tors-that one to ten -odds mean li f "Lf" M d
nothing.
18 points.
Neff*s boy* showed *cry i
singly of a .good flnor.jnmp 'and; unb McGo\
vrlon ^MniBbtelv' On« 'thin- ln' Toni DIIIon nmI " r w cllM , of "Lefty" Moore, made
an all-out attempt, to "Just get rid
Ntndfwl ihn oama of the ball." But. to the surprise
e.l ISBUM 3£h
* Valcnte.
. favoVVf the iRnattan* wni tho Th0 latter Uo ucre Iniflrtol uith
v number of fouls, which added up just fi\e minutes to play, with tho
of r.iMilnit overtime. Lowell ncoreil. Jf '
ed lineups. Coach everyone (Including himself)
AQ M] * M *aroutul the r(m ^
• " " "In the mcih for '
In i.l« of fimri*
* father.
With one loss under their 1M .
tho Indians nre now more determined
than ner to cop tho championship.
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firm ti> I'racchla stole the ball and ..T 11 ? Wanl position* are ran by
went the length of the court for clal "£ Ro»enbcri- nnd In- Shemntwo
noints. Fox or the WiMrat*: no ' »"»»»«nt l» tho spark of tho
«m fouled, nnd he made his free; 1 ';!" 11 " ni1 » wwrf defensive man.
throw to put St. Iinwliu. within!"'" rebwinciiiur Mil •hmtinir will
one imlnt of the Indlnns. Lowell i " ln , v « 1 « r f the Indlnns. Lowell i " « f»rt In thi- light,
toil the hall dwiourt hd! wetaht thi Sh
nd wit
Bdl
ln , v « 1 « r « f»rt In thi- light,
ll dowicourt on a had! wetaht names this year. Shemano
PiiM, an with ith the second ticking '• » reliable ball plnycr and comes
awav Bordclamrw clamrw of the Wildcats ''""""eh
when ncedtd. Irj- l« a
hit the luwn for two to put tho lB-1 fl n edtd. Irj l« a
hit the luw for two to put tho lB
ni! In frnt
flMl m » n : '•" ta "
nai!»ns In front. eyos nn the team.
With but. fifteen seconds remain. Tho. second .trine also prewnt
Ine. Lniiell took tlm; out... When a well.bjlanced cornnlnntlon. It Is
time was called hack in. u de». romoonid of Boh Tollman nnd Boh
jente »hot at the banlwt by the Matheny at forwtla. Solomon at
In.liun» fnllnl. and St. TRnatirM renter, and Tom Nllon and Charll.
»o. \lclorlous by the lllln margin Louie at the guird r»ts. Other
of jno Mint- i mcmlurn or the team are Vic Lovit,
Iracchia rs tho Mar or\t»e, (fam nob S»lnrley. Al Williams, Lurry
and a real All-Cilj • candidate. Ter'.ine. Ilerhio Kewjler. Corky '
John played first r string liBhl- Melville, and James Konkel.